2. The Women’s March tomorrow is expected to draw large crowds in cities nationwide, reports Emily DeRuy of the Bay Area News Group$. Last year’s march drew 100,000 demonstrators to downtown Oakland. Oakland’s rally is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. at Lake Merritt Amphitheater and then proceed up 14th Street to Frank Ogawa Plaza.

3. California set a record low for unemployment last month, with the jobless rate dipping to 4.3 percent, the Sacramento Bee$ reports. The state added 52,700 jobs in December. The previous record low for joblessness was 4.6 percent.

5. Ram Hotels has resubmitted a plan to build a new 100-room hotel on Alameda’s Bay Farm Island one year after the San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission rejected a similar proposal, reports Peter Hegarty of the East Bay Times$. The new hotel in the Harbor Bay Business Park would be four stories tall, rather than the five-story plan that was denied.

7. The flu virus can be passed by merely breathing the same air as those who are sick, reports Tracy Seipel of the Mercury News$, citing a new study involving UC Berkeley researchers. Previously, it was thought that people caught the flu after “being exposed to droplets from an infected person’s coughs or sneezes, or by touching contaminated surfaces.” This year’s flu has killed 42 people under the age of 65 in California.